The Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) is a scientific and research centre associated with the Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc. Its mission is to carry out advanced research and to transfer high-tech products and technologies to medical, industrial and environmental practice. We emphasize on connecting the Centre to international networks and collaborations and on involvement of early carrier stage researchers in our projects.

The structure of the eight research divisions is in accordance with the eight research programmes of the Centre. Every research division is headed by the Head of the Group who is appointed by the General Director of the Centre and is responsible to him/her. When dealing with issues of planning the research activities, he/she closely cooperates with the Scientific Director of the Centre.

Mgr. Martina Šaradínová

Spolupráce s laboratoří CERN

Experiment LHCb, one of the four main experiments at the LHC collider at CERN reports the observation of two new composite particles dubbed pentaquarks, with inner structure of four quarks and an antiquark. While other interpretations like a molecular-like bound state of a baryon and a meson are still in game the discovery sheds new light on the nature of the strong force, one of the fundamental interaction of Nature, which holds together atomic nuclei as well as protons or neutrons as bound states of three quarks. More data and independent experiments are needed to confirm the nature of the new particles.